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The West
100
The main source of food, clothing and shelter for Plains Indians.
What are the buffalo?
100
Name of the president who signed the Pacific Railway Act.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
The 1862 law that granted land to settlers if they could remain on it for five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
100
While men (and some women) from all over the world went to mine in the West, this was the largest group.
Who are the Irish?
100
This endeavor took only 50 years, whereas earlier settlement had taken more than 200 years.
What is settlement of the West?
200

This group paid people to hunt and kill thousands of buffalo, ending a way of life on the plains.

Who are the railroad companies?

200
Name of the two railroads given land grants to build the Transcontinental Railway?
What are the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroad companies?
200
The name given to homesteaders on the Great Plains.
What is a sodbuster?
200
The finding of silver in Nevada lead to this mining "rush."
What is the Comstock Lode?
200
The major reason for the Indian wars of the 1850s to 1880s.
What is invasion of Indian lands by US settlers?
300
Treaty that ceded some Indian lands to allow for the wagon trains in return for maintaining the Plains Indians way of life.
What is the 1851 Treaty of Fort Laramie?
300
The year and place where the two railroad companies met to establish the first cross-country railroad.
What is Promontory Point, Utah, 1869?
300

Three issues that made life on the prairie much harder than earlier pioneer farming.

What are hard soil, droughts, plagues of insects, harsh winters, wars or fighting with Native peoples, isolation.....

300
These people were not allowed to go into the mines or to pan for gold or silver until the other miners had abandoned the site.
Who are the Chinese?
300
General killed at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Who is George Armstrong Custer?
400
Leader of the resistance for the Apache and leader of the resistance for the Nez Perce.
Who are Geronimo and Chief Joseph?
400
The two immigrant groups most responsible for the actual building of the Transcontinental railroad.
Who are the Irish and the Chinese?
400
The name given to African-American homesteaders and where they often ended up.
What are exodusters and Kansas.
400
These are two of the major cattle trails out of Texas and were they ended.
What are the Goodnight-Loving and Chisolm Trail and what is the transcontinental railroad?
400
The two major policies of the U.S. government to break up the power of Native American tribal culture.
What is forced the break-up of tribal reservation land (Dawes Act) and the forced assimilation of Indian children.
500

The approximate percentage Native American lands ceded or taken in the West from 1850-1900.

What is 75% or 138-148 million acres?

500
Who benefitted by the Pacific Railway Act and by how much?
The owners of the railroads. Estimated that they received the equivalent of CA and MT in land grants.
500
The result for the Californios of the takeover of the area north of Mexico by miners and settlers.
They spent years in courts trying to hold on to their lands, losing millions and declining in population from 82-19% of California.
500
The invention of this type of mining and this type of fencing saw the end of the individual miner and the cowboy.
What are hydraulic mining and barbed wire?
500
This group successfully sued the U.S. government for these sacred lands and won; however, they refuse to accept cash in lieu of the return of their lands.
What are the Lakota Sioux and the Black Hills of S.Dakota.